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Alan Ward
Blog No. 3 Anthology blÆkk is out on 23th June 2016
I was invited to illustrate two short stories for the 1st edition of blÆkk, an anthology of short stories and illustrations. The story by Michael Wertenberg completely blew me away, which resulted in a semi-abstract illustration with moonlight and clouds distilling into funnel with jellyfish, that ultimately leaves a water stain over a blueprint of…
Blog No. 2 Video for Moonface and Siinai ‘Risto’s Riff’
In a world obsessed with taking photographs, that sucks joys and spontaneity out of everything, turns beautiful little things into never ending clutter of visual debris, a new mechanical winged creature appears. It’s purpose is to remind us of the principle behind Occam’s Razor: ‘entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity’, it urges us to…
Blog No. 1: 04 02 16 The Surveilled
I’m taking part in a group exhibition in Manchester, click here for the event link: The Surveilled examines the modern day male gaze. How does modern society and the digital age affect the way women are observed, seen, and watched; and how do women define it themselves? Other featured Artists: Eva Goldwyn Simpkins Jo Lane…
Headed for the Door
“Headed for the Door” in its dense glory is a world-ender—one that commits to the idea of a breakup as actually meaning as much as you think it means in the moment. Appropriately, the video, directed by Marsha Balaeva, who potentially took some cues from Maya Deren at some point in life, features lots of…
Faraway Lightning
“This astonishing paper cut-out stop-motion animation follows the fantastic journey and trials of a birdman character, who falls from the sky at the start of the video. A beautiful, mournful fairytale that will stay with you.” Time Out According to director Marsha Balaeva, the new video she has created for the song “Faraway Lightning”…
Coming To At Dawn
A hand drawn animation made to a song “Coming To At Dawn” by Canadian band “Sunset Rubdown” introducing Moonface.
Life Drawing
Working from a life model is very exposing for an artist, any mistakes and flaws in the drawing are instantly obvious, so it creates a challenge to get things right in 20, 30 or 50 minutes of the pose. There is a great team of life drawing enthusiasts in Preston who run a weekly class,…
Joe with the Jam
BC greats Frog Eyes recently teased their upcoming Pickpocket’s Locket LP with a stream of its stirring “Joe with the Jam.” Now, the band have paired the heart-pumping number with a fantastic, cut-and-paste style animated video. The visual treatment, directed by UK artist Marsha Balaeva, uses thousands of drawings covering the tune’s various characters. This…
Sensitive Girls
This afternoon Stereogum premiered the new, animated video for Frog Eyes’ “The Sensitive Girls” by London-based, Russian artist Marsha Balaeva. For Balaeva, “what attracted [her] most was the theme of urban gloom and despair, where everything you look at is palpably wrong and menacing, yet fascinating in some way.” The animation itself is fully hand-drawn…
